Test 8 · ★ · Screens, sleep, fairness and differences
A boy in Leeds says «Your family is weird» because a classmate has two mums. What is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, family, classmate · What happens: say, be, have · To what, where: two mums · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 103 «Screens, sleep, fairness and differences» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
Sentence 1: A boy in Leeds says «Your family is weird» because a classmate has two mums.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Leeds | case |
| 4 | Leeds | Leeds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 10 weird | punct |
| 7 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 family | nmod:poss |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 weird | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 weird | cop |
| 10 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 says | ccomp |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 10 weird | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 has | mark |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 classmate | det |
| 14 | classmate | classmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | ccomp |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 mums | nummod |
| 17 | mums | mum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 has | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | a boy in Leeds | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Your family | weird property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | a classmate | two mums | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Sentence 2: What is true?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The classmate should keep her family a secret from everyone at school
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 classmate | det |
| 2 | classmate | classmate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 keep | aux |
| 4 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 family | nmod:poss |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 secret | det |
| 8 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | xcomp |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 everyone | case |
| 10 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 keep | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 school | case |
| 12 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keep | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | should | the classmate | classmate's family | everyone | at school | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent family=Theme at school=Location |
Option 2
Families with two mums are not real
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 real | nsubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 mums | case |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 mums | nummod |
| 4 | mums | mum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Families | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 real | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 real | advmod |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Families with two mums | real property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
What matters is that a family loves each other
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 loves | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 family | det |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 loves | nsubj |
| 7 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | advcl |
| 8 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 7 loves | obj |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 each | fixed |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | matter | present | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | love | present | a family | each | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
Option 4
Only families like his are normal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 families | advmod |
| 2 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 normal | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 his | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 families | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 normal | cop |
| 6 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | families like his | normal property | tree rules |
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